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Philip Guston's daughter on his Klan paintings: 'They're about white culpability – including his own'

The postponement last year of an exhibition of the artist’s work led to a fraught debate over race and culture

Published: 21 Feb 2021
A shadow history: the unseen photographs of Elliott Erwitt

Published: 14 Feb 2021
Fran Lebowitz: 'I am really not a contrarian'

Published: 7 Feb 2021

Book of the day Thin Places by Kerri ní Dochartaigh review – a survivor's story

A Derry writer’s powerful, unflinching account of her war-torn childhood and her quest for peace is part hymn to nature, part Troubles memoir

Published: 19 Jan 2021
Photographer Deanna Templeton: ‘Everything gets mixed up when you're a teenager’

Published: 17 Jan 2021

2021 culture preview Brutal Bacon, wild Gehry and unmissable Abramovic: 2021's best art, architecture and photography

Published: 31 Dec 2020

Book of the day The Walker by Matthew Beaumont review – an urban wanderland

Beaumont draws on multiple literary sources in his paean to the joys of thinking while pounding the city streets

Published: 30 Nov 2020
Book of the day Walking With Ghosts by Gabriel Byrne review – an elegy for Ireland

The celebrated actor brings his youth in Dublin to vivid life in a tender account of how failing as a priest and a plumber led him to Hollywood

Published: 23 Nov 2020
Steve McQueen edits the Observer New Review Paul Gilroy: 'I don’t think we can afford the luxury of pessimism'

The writer on Black British culture discusses his feelings about the future of race relations and his friendship with Steve McQueen

Published: 15 Nov 2020
Steve McQueen edits the Observer New Review Steve McQueen: 'It's rebel music that moves me'

The director on the reggae-fuelled house parties he witnessed as a child - lovingly recreated in his new film, Lovers Rock – and how their raw energy shaped his taste in music

Published: 15 Nov 2020

Lockdown culture 'A roadmap to redemption': how a photographer helped a prisoner see beyond his cage

After a Minnesota inmate wrote to Alec Soth on impulse this year, the two began a freewheeling exchange of ideas on culture and isolation that developed into an astonishing new book

Published: 29 Oct 2020

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